A new study has found that boys who witness their peers' abusive behaviors to girls were more likely to be violent toward others, in characteristics like bullying, youth violence, rape and dating abuse.
The study, published Friday in the"American Journal of Preventive Medicine," was led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. They found that boys who witnessed their peers' abusive behaviors to girls were more likely to be violent toward others, in characteristics like bullying, youth violence, rape and dating abuse.But that doesn't mean boys with equal gender beliefs were without fault.
"This reinforces that pressure to conform to stereotypes about masculinity that perpetuate harmful behaviors toward women and girls is also associated with getting in a fight with another guy," said lead author Elizabeth Miller, a professor of pediatrics, public health and clinical and translational science at Pitt."These behaviors aren't happening in silos -- if we're going to stop one, we need to also be addressing the other.
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